🍭 Death Stars, Data, & Deals 🤝

Good morning. This newsletter was written from a hospital waiting room.

Intern is safe.
Snacks are missing.

Let’s dig in.

🍭 What’s Cookin’:

• Spectral’s Death Star

• Sora 2 is bringing the dead back to life

• Top 5 Launches on Product Hunt

• Everything Else you need to know!

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⚒️ Yesterday’s Top 5 Launches on Product Hunt

🎥 Tight Studio 2
→ AI-native screen recorder & demo editor with auto-zoom, caption editing, and AI voiceover for fast, polished product videos.

🖨️ Stencil by Superhands
→ Copy UI from any webpage and paste straight into Lovable, v0, or Bolt so you can prototype in minutes, not hours.

🔊 ElevenLabs UI
→ Open-source shadcn/ui component library for voice agents—prebuilt pieces for voice chat, transcription, and audio players under MIT.

🧩 Glue AI
→ Agentic team chat with MCP-powered workflows—humans, tools, and AI collaborate in goal-oriented threads to turn talk into shipped work.

⚡️ Agent Runners
→ Netlify’s dashboard-native runners that let you prompt Claude Code/Gemini/Codex to fix, update, and ship code with your project’s context.

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🌑 MultiCortex: Infra Headliner in Spectral’s Death Star (FCCN)

The Bite: Spectral’s on a shopping spree.

Yesterday it picked up Snack Prompt. The audience and community play.

Today: MultiCortex, a heavyweight in AI-native, quantum-ready computing.

Together, they’re forming something bigger:
A platform that blends reach and raw tech muscle.

And the tastiest part?

Spectral has applied to graduate from OTC to the Nasdaq.

That shift would put FCCN in front of millions of retail investors who can grab it in seconds on their phones.

It’s still early, still speculative, but if that move happens, attention could hit a whole new gear.

Snacks:

• Infra Moment: MultiCortex brings the infrastructure layer:

  • AI-native systems built for next-gen compute.

• Spectral plans to pour up to $15M into it after audits and uplisting.

• Audience Power: Snack Prompt adds distribution and cultural reach to the mix, backed by a binding term sheet and up to $5M in growth capital.

• The NASDAQ “Graduation”: Spectral has officially applied to make the jump.

• FCCN is the ticker that ties the story together and the one worth watching.

Why it bites: Spectral’s quietly assembling a dream team.

Snack Prompt brings the people.
MultiCortex brings the power.

Under one umbrella, it’s a flywheel for growth.
Distribution meets infrastructure with room to run.

And accessibility?

That’s where things get interesting.

Remember when buying Bitcoin meant dealing with sketchy exchanges like Mt. Gox?
Once it hit the mainstream, value followed attention.

If FCCN does manage to move from OTC to NASDAQ, that same dynamic, ease of access driving demand, could play out again in a whole new way.

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🤔 Deepfakes of the Dead: The Gray Is Getting Louder

The Bite: AI is now resurrecting the dead.
Sometimes beautifully, sometimes painfully.

Platforms block deepfakes of the living, but not the gone.

That gap’s becoming the new Wild West:
one side calls it creativity, the other calls it exploitation.

Zelda Williams, daughter of the late Robin Williams, hates AI versions of her dad.

Others want to see MLK deliver a 2025 remix.

There’s no clear rulebook yet, just vibes and lawsuits waiting to happen.

AI won’t stop.
People have to decide what “too far” means.

Snacks:

• No libel line. The dead can’t sue, so the ethics are wide open.

• Guardrails lag. Platforms protect the living, ghosts get a pass.

• Rights vary. California ~70 years, New York ~40 — and lots of gray.

• Policy crawl. “NO FAKES Act” exists on paper, not in practice.

• Culture clash. From MLK to Robin Williams, reverence meets remix.

Why it bites: AI is rewriting what “legacy” even means.

It’s not good or evil.
Just powerful and fast.

The tech won’t wait for the law, and the internet never asks for permission.

Steal This Prompt
🏋️‍♂️ AI Fitness Plan

Generate a personalized workout plan—automated exercises matched to your goals and schedule—so you stop guessing and start moving.

Perfect for busy weeks or a zero-braincell home routine between Zooms.

1. Click this link (Prompt)

2. Paste into GPT

3. your calendar becomes a trainer, minus the yelling.

   
   🍭 Try the prompt on Snack Prompt 🍭

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🧠 You Need to Know

📱 Sora copycats slip through Apple’s App Store

→ TechCrunch found over a dozen fake “Sora” apps made it past review; many were removed but some remain, with 300,000 collective installs.

🏢 Google launches Gemini Enterprise for workplaces

→ Google introduced a Cloud-based platform to build and govern AI agents, with pricing starting at $30 per seat per month.

🌏 ChatGPT Go expands to 16 countries in Asia

→ OpenAI’s sub-$5 plan now covers Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, East Timor, and Vietnam, with local currency options in select markets.

🏗️ Reflection AI raises $2B to challenge DeepSeek

→ The new U.S. “open frontier” AI lab secured $2 billion to compete with top frontier labs.

🇮🇳 a16z denies India office plan

→ We previously noted reports suggesting expansion; a16z now calls those claims “entirely fake news” and denies opening an India office.